Growing Judaism
Beyond Zionism
Bearing Witness: Writing Memory & Change
An online poetry workshop exploring moral awakening amid zionist narratives
Led by Abby Caplin
March 18, 6-8pm, Online
Anti-Zionist Judaism
Beyt Tikkun is committed to a Judaism of love, justice, transformation, and liberation, including that of the Palestinian people and their land. We reject zionism’s ideology of white, Jewish supremacy. Just as we are committed to being anti-racist, so too are we committed to being anti-zionist.
WHO WE ARE
Beyt Tikkun:
A Synagogue
Without Walls
We are a hybrid spiritual home for politically progressive seekers—Jewish and non-Jewish—based in San Francisco Bay Area and connected across the world.
GET INVOLVED!
Upcoming Events
Family Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck with JVP Kids (IN-PERSON in Oakland)
Bearing Witness: Writing Memory and Change, Led by Abby Caplin (ONLINE)
Shabbat Service & Torah Study w/ Rabbi Cat | Parsha Vayikra (HYBRID)
Liberation Seder: We Get There Together (HYBRID – Online & In-Person in Oakland)
TAKE ACTION!
Weekly
Action for Peace
Beyt Tikkun’s Weekly Action for Peace offers concrete steps you can take each week to advance justice, protect human rights, and end violence. Each update features timely calls to action, resources for deeper learning, and opportunities to join with others in advocating for peace in Israel/Palestine and beyond.
JOIN US!
Become a Member
- High Holiday and festival services for free or at a discounted rate
- Pastoral counseling and selected life-cycle events
- Educational programs for free or at a discounted rate
- Access to the Members-Only webpages
- Members-only gatherings
- Committee and leadership opportunities
- Social action project participation
I just wanted to say thank you, and phenomenal, from the weekly newsletter and well thought-out calls to action (making it easy for me to sign, act, support) to the Torah study, where you made me feel welcome. As a gentile, the lessons and discussion speak to me, exactly where I am right now.
I am very grateful. This is where my heart is and I am looking forward to learning and growing in this community.
I am super grateful for finding Beyt Tikkun. What I’ve appreciated is having an explicit anti-Zionist framework in which Jewish spirituality and ritual are held. This has offered me the deep spiritual solace and containment I had yearned for.
Beyt Tikkun is a humble and smart group of like-minded people standing for community consciousness and social justice.
I appreciate that Rabbi Cat takes a strong social justice stand for all humans. This aligns with my Jewish values to welcome the stranger and treat everyone the way we want to be treated.
READ AND WATCH!
New Teachings
Rabbi Cat’s Musings on When the Palace Is Not Safe: Purim, Patriarchy, and the Cost of Proximity to Power
Rabbi Cat challenges the themes of Purim, contextualizing them within systems of power, complicity, and sexual exploitation.
Rabbi Cat’s Musings on Parsha Noach: Falsehood, Misfortune, and the Hope for Peace
Rabbi Cat Zavis reflects on Parshat Noach during a week of protest, devastation, and moral urgency. What does it mean to live righteously in a corrupt time? How does the Earth respond when human cruelty becomes too much to bear? And what might it take for loving kindness and truth to meet—so that justice and peace can kiss?
Planting Seeds of Justice and Hope – Rabbi Cat’s Musings on Parsha Bereshit
In this reflection on Parshat Bereshit, Rabbi Cat Zavis invites us to notice the seeds of liberation planted at the beginning of creation. Amid ongoing devastation in Gaza and around the world, she calls us to breathe in the divine life force and recommit to standing in solidarity with global struggles for justice, from all rivers to all seas.